Note: The DVD I viewed is the so-called censored version, which I rented. If you’re planning to buy this DVD, be aware that, as described below, Falcon has exorcised what may be a big chunk out of the last scene. The uncensored version is available directly from Falcon but might show up in resale. See Message Board on this site for further info.

The DVD opens with Chip Noll being kidnapped while half asleep by Chad Kennedy, Dylan Reece, and Tony Lazzari. They put a hood over his head, strap him to the roof of an SUV like a 5-point buck (really!), and away they go. Where? We’ll get to that shortly.

But first up we find Tristan Paris is poised to service a cigar smoking, leather-harness-and-chaps-wearing Clay Maverick. Clay looks just great in this scene! They say to make it in gay porn, you need at least 2 of 3 things—good looking face, a great body, and a big dick. Well, Clay has hit the trifecta. Tristan caresses the big guy’s meat like he was worshiping it. And what I liked a lot about this scene was it wasn’t just rip off the pants, suck the boner, screw the hole and cum. Both guys played it nice and slow, savoring every stroke, every lick. On a vanilla sex scale of 1 to 10, I’d give it a creamy 8.

Next, the hooded captive and his 3 handlers arrive in a caged area where 7 harnessed white boys in leather chaps stand, dicks at attention, ready to be serviced by the 4 arrivals. These 7 are all really big-dicked guys (as you would expect from Falcon) and the servicers do an admirable job getting all that meat in their mouths. This scene is hot; it’s almost too many guys to keep track of. There’s some superb rimming and taking the bone up the hole in all sorts of positions. On top of all that, there’s a brief two-dick insertion scene and some autofellatio by Nick Reilly, both of which were far too short for me. And as the scene seemingly comes to an end, Jason Branch, standing, shoots off a monster load, followed by money shots all around. And then I though, well, that’s it; on to the next scene. BUT NO! The 4 bottoms then start over, this time making the rounds of the seven by squatting on their dicks till everybody cums again. (At the going rate for cum shots—what is it? $1000 per??--this had to be an expensive scene to shoot.) Excellent.

Now for the last quote scene unquote. This was to be a side-by-side sling scene with Christopher Scott being doodled by an older, shaved headed, very muscular Addison Scott (who I thought looked extremely hot) along side Thom Barron being handled by—who exactly I couldn’t say—the scene was too short for me to recognize due to the heavy editing. Certainly large dildoes were involved and I suspect fisting, but who’s to say what else. As mentioned above, you’d be able to find out if you paid Falcon’s $80 for the uncut version but not knowing what footage and how much of it you’ll get, I’d advise against it. What was particularly annoying to me was that Falcon chose to flaunt this editing by slapping a box over the bottom of the action with a label saying “CONTROVERSIAL FOOTAGE AVAILABLE BY MAIL ORDER ONLY” and, in another spot, simply having the screen go black for a few seconds. My questions are: 1) Controversial by whose standards? Ever seen any of the stuff freom Plain Wrapped Video? Or for oldtimers, Christopher Rage's Outrage? 2) If they weren’t trying to just tease us, the buying public, why couldn’t they have made more of an effort to seamlessly edit out this stuff? As such, the “edited” version on my DVD lasted about 6 minutes. I was expecting and drooling for a lot more.

My other beefs with this DVD are minor. The subtitle of this DVD is “A Taste For Leather” and that’s just what it is. A taste. Except for Jason Branch (if you’ve seen his bondage flicks by Tom Ropes McGurk, you know how wicked he can be), the rest of the 7 leather clad dudes don’t have any nasty edge to them and there’s nary a hairy chest hair or a tattoo to be found so it all comes across like young suburban college jocks dressing up in leather for a fling. And Blake Harper, usually a standout, is indistinguishable from the rest of the bunch here. So leather aficionados be aware. Falcon’s Abduction Series this is not. The only other minor point is Chip Noll himself. He’s really the worst cocksucker of the lot (he needs to take a whole lot more cock down his throat, not just caress the mushroom) and the small lad looks like he’s not totally enjoying the experience. But when you’ve got 11 guys romping around having very hot sex, one guy like this is easily overlooked. [:D]

Overall, I’m giving this 3 1/2 stars, with lots of qualifications. It is really good, what there is of it, and that’s quite a lot. But I might have rated it higher had I seen the missing material. If you want to rent this, it’s a really good choice. If you’re buying the censored version, I don’t know. I do know I wouldn’t pay Falcon’s $80+ price for a pig in a poke.

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